{"id":192730,"date":"2026-03-02T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/microsoft-racks-up-over-500-million-in-ai-savings-while-slashing-jobs-bloomberg-news-reports\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:25:21","slug":"microsoft-racks-up-over-500-million-in-ai-savings-while-slashing-jobs-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/microsoft-racks-up-over-500-million-in-ai-savings-while-slashing-jobs-bloomberg-news-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft racks up over $500 million in AI savings while slashing jobs, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/microsoft-racks-over-500-million-184531943.html?utm_sourceu003dchatgpt.com\">Microsoft racks up over $500 million in AI savings while slashing jobs, Bloomberg News reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/microsoft-racks-over-500-million-184531943.html?utm_sourceu003dchatgpt.com\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/microsoft-racks-over-500-million-184531943.html?utm_sourceu003dchatgpt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 20:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aol.com\">www.aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the key points from the article as per the guidelines:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Microsoft utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to save over $500 million in its call centers last year.<br \/>\n&#8211; The tech company plans to lay off nearly 4% of its workforce, marking a continuation of cost-cutting measures following earlier layoffs affecting about 6,000 workers in May.<br \/>\n&#8211; AI tools are aiding in improving productivity across various business segments including sales, customer service, and software engineering.<br \/>\n&#8211; Microsoft has started implementing AI to manage interactions with smaller customers, according to Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff.<br \/>\n&#8211; AI has contributed to the generation of 35% of the code for new product development, ultimately accelerating launch times.<br \/>\n&#8211; The company has allocated $80 billion for capital spending this fiscal year, with a significant portion focused on expanding data centers to support its AI services.<br \/>\n&#8211; Major tech firms are investing heavily in AI, viewing it as a major growth driver while trimming costs in other areas to protect profit margins.<\/p>\n<p>For detailed information, kindly refer to the original source provided by Bloomberg News.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft racks up over $500 million in AI savings while slashing jobs, Bloomberg News reports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/aol_reuters_29\/d080179639fc7bcdfa6828c2a1f7d739","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-192730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192732,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192730\/revisions\/192732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}